Cicero's Speeches

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Recommended for students who have completed CLLA 20003 or equivalent. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-44 BC) was the most accomplished orator of the Roman Republic. This course offers close reading of select speeches of Cicero. The art of persuasion was an essential requirement for success in Roman public life, and no one was more persuasive than Cicero. The flexibility and complexity of Cicero's grammatical expression, the range of his styles, and the political contexts in which his speeches were delivered are all given careful treatment.